J. P. Mallory Explained

J. P. Mallory
Birth Name:	James Patrick Mallory
Birth Date:	25 October 1945
Birth Place:	San Bernardino, California, U.S.
Doctoral Advisor:	Marija Gimbutas
Influences:	Edgar C. Polomé
Sub Discipline:	Indo-European studies
Main Interests:	Indo-European migrations
Notable Ideas:	Kurgan hypothesis

James Patrick Mallory (born October 25, 1945) is an American archaeologist and Indo-Europeanist. Mallory is an emeritus professor at Queen's University, Belfast;^[1] a member of the Royal Irish Academy,^[2] and the former editor of the Journal of Indo-European Studies^[3] and Emania: Bulletin of the Navan Research Group (Belfast).^[1]

Career

J. P. Mallory was born in San Bernardino, California on October 25, 1945, the son of Clyde Francis and Rosemarie Mallory. Mallory received his A.B. in History from Occidental College in California in 1967,^[2] then served three years in the US Army as a military police sergeant. He received his Ph.D. in Indo-European studies from UCLA in 1975 under the supervision of Marija Gimbutas.^{[4] [2]} Together with Gimbutas, Edgar C. Polomé and other Indo-Europeanists, Mallory was involved in the founding of the Journal of Indo-European Studies.^[5]

Selected publications

Books

• Book: In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth. registration. Mallory, J. P.. 1989. Thames & Hudson. London. 0-500-27616-1.
• Book: The First Testament. Mallory, J. P.. T. Jesus. 1991. Dufour Editions. Jerusalem. 0-85389-353-5.
• Book: The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West. Mallory, J. P.. Victor H. Mair. Victor H. Mair. 2000. Thames & Hudson. London. 0-500-05101-1. registration.
• Book: The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World. Mallory, J. P.. Adams, D. Q.. Douglas Q. Adams. 2006. Oxford University Press. Oxford. 0199287910.
• Book: The Origins of the Irish. Mallory, J. P.. 2013. Thames & Hudson. London–New York. 978-0500051757.
• Book: Mallory . J.P. . In search of the Irish dreamtime : archaeology & early Irish literature . 2016 . Thames & Hudson . London . 9780500051849.

Edited volumes

• J. P. Mallory & Brian M. Fagan, eds. The Oxford Companion to Archaeology. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
• Book: Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. Mallory, J. P.. Adams, D. Q.. Douglas Q. Adams. 1997. Fitzroy-Dearborn. London and Chicago. 1-884964-98-2.

See also

• David W. Anthony
• C. Scott Littleton
• A. Richard Diebold Jr.
• Jaan Puhvel

Sources

• Web site: James Patrick Mallory . February 21, 2007 . . . September 16, 2020 . .

External links

• , University of Pennsylvania Museum (video)

Notes and References

1. https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/james-mallory Prof. Mallory's Academic Homepage at QUB
2. https://www.ria.ie/james-p-mallory Royal Irish Academy Membership entry
3. http://www.jies.org/ Journal of Indo-European Studies
4. J.P. Mallory, "The Indo-European Homeland Problem: The Logic of the Inquiry" Ph.D. dissertation - UCLA. Ann Arbor (Mass): Xerox Microfilms, 1975.
5. Pearson . Robert . 2000 . In Memoriam . September 7, 2020 . . 28 . 1 . 1–2 . .